That rings true as Norton Internet Security's MO, so it's the first thing I would consider. I would start by temporarily disabling the privacy and parental control features, then looking through the firewall settings to ensure there are no additional image blocking settings. It's possible it's a glitch in IE7 (you can roll back to IE6 by uninstalling Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 in Add/Remove Programs), but I'd bet on Norton being the scource of your frustrations.
John
Win XP & IE7 Fully updated.
This problem is mostly just dam irratating and I've had enough. And looking for a good aa-haa from one or many.
If I go to, for instance;
http://theimpulsecompany.com/products/10_seasonal/124_Christmas_0 The text loads but the images do not (well a few may but not all and sometimes one or two will pop further down. It takes jumping through a few hoops to get it to load all the images. Typically the hoops include d-clicking an image link then clicking "show image on the that page, casue it dosen't show either) and then hitting the back button. Sometimes that works sometimes not. This is mostly on my PC. Other PC's don't seem to have the problem though I did runn accross one. In addition it will happen on most sites that display a lot of images.
System:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Manufacturer Custom
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~551 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software, Inc. ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1004, 10/19/1999
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Total Physical Memory 384.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 74.40 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.34 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Video ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP
HDD: 20GB with 11GB left
IE: 7.0.5450.4
Security: Norton IS 2006 Ver 9.1.0.33
One last bit. I live in the boonies and use a satellite dish connection. (roughly the speed of DSL)
Give it your best shot and thanks in advance.
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